Game crashes when I change resolution. Anybody know what's up with that?

[TheAlmightyProo]

So I got this last year, was running it just fine for a few days on my old AMD A6 laptop before it died...
Just now I decided to install it on my newer laptop (i7 4720HQ, GTX 970m, 16 GB RAM, FHD 1080p screen) the game starts in 1024x768 but when I change the resolution to anything (let alone 1920x1080) the game crashes.
Anybody know a work round?
Ta.

[BlueTemplar]

Does it crash in windowed mode too?

[TheAlmightyProo]

Originally posted by BlueTemplar:

Does it crash in windowed mode too?

Just gave it a shot in windowed mode (that is the option to take it off full screen right?)
Only gave me the option of 1024x768... and crashed again anyway as soon as I confirmed it.
I'm guessing this is most likely a driver issue but I don't know enough about drivers to be rolling them back willy nilly and such.
Not sure I can have multiple drivers... excuse my ignorance but I'm more a hardware than software person, my illness makes it harder for me to deal with nonphysical things/concepts I can't see or directly manipulate, it's dumb I know but there it is...
Ta.

[BlueTemplar]

You can change the settings, including setting the size of the window in display.cfg :
http://wiki.swordofthestars.com/sots1/Display.cfg

[TheAlmightyProo]

Ok I think I fixed it.
Here's what I did... rather than go via display.cfg and having no Internet atm (aside from limited on my phone, I'm on holiday in the sticks) to further troubleshoot I went into the game files and poked around... found session (changeable using notepad like the older total war games were) and changed the resolution in there from 1024x768 to 1920x1080.
Then came out, started game, went to options and changed resolution there to 1920x1080... and voila! No crash, running @60fps (which my screen is limited to anyway) and looks pretty sharp.
Looks stable but I'm going to play around a while to make sure it's ok.
Thanks BlueTemplar for getting me thinking outside the box.

[BlueTemplar]

Well, yes, that's what I suggested, isn't it?
though what do you mean by "session"?

[chuftka]

Any time I try to adjust graphic settings, the game reverts to a real low resolution and I have to quit and restart it to get it back to my desktop resolution. This is true even though it claims in the Settings that it is running at my desktop resolution when clearly it isn't.

[TheAlmightyProo]

Originally posted by chuftka:

Any time I try to adjust graphic settings, the game reverts to a real low resolution and I have to quit and restart it to get it back to my desktop resolution. This is true even though it claims in the Settings that it is running at my desktop resolution when clearly it isn't.

For me it was crashing when I changed resolution but as I said above I found a work around that might fix it for you:
In your drive view (this PC) double click on the drive your steam library is in and go steam library-steamapps-common-sword of the stars complete collection... you'll see a file named session, it opens using notepad, some way down the list you should see a resolution setting (it said 1024x768 for me) change it to 1920x1080, confirm changes, get out of there and give the game a try. When I did this I could change the resolution in game settings to play in 1920x1080 without it crashing or any funny business (and it looks pretty good too, nice and defined and lacking that annoying border) I tried starting the game a few times and played a while to see if it would hold and it did.
Don't forget for added safety here to make a copy of that file in a new folder on your desktop just in case you need to undo anything.

Weird thing is when I went back to that session file to check while I was making sure I hadn't broken anything, it had reset back to 1024x768 but the 1920x1080 I'd set the game to stayed as it was.
Sorry if my description of the file path is confusing btw, I don't know how to write these things and tend to find stuff like this out by fiddling with things and hoping I don't break my PC. There might be easier way to do any of the steps I described here but I'm not computer savvy (I can build 'em but I'm lost when it comes to software stuff)
Hope it works for you.

[TheAlmightyProo]

Originally posted by BlueTemplar:

Well, yes, that's what I suggested, isn't it?
though what do you mean by "session"?

Hi sorry I didn't reply earlier, I must've somehow missed a bunch of notifications while I was away and didn't even know. Anyway I just gave chuftka a description of what I did (above) if you're interested.